DOI Heft:
No. 114 (September, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Jenkins, Will: Illustration of the daily press in America, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19876#0298
American Press Illustrators
No editor could reason-
ably expect his leader-
writer to turn out copy
equal to the work of a
brilliant essayist every day
in the week. Neither could
he expect the staff artists,
under the pressure and
distracting conditions in-
separable from such work,
to produce drawings each
day such as a Vierge,
Menzel, or Abbey would
do in their private studios.
Such comparisons would be
obviously unfair, and yet,
after due allowance has
been made for conditions
and requirements of news,
many drawings have been
made by staff workers that
compare very favourably
with the work of a similar
nature in book or magazine
pages.
The drawing of racing
yachts here reproduced
again shows the excellent
power of line displayed by
L. A. Shafer. His know-
ledge of nautical things is
(From the " Chicago Record") very complete, and his
286
CHORUS OF EUROPEAN POWERS : BY JOHN T. MCCUTCII EON
"HERE COMES THE BOGEY MAX '
No editor could reason-
ably expect his leader-
writer to turn out copy
equal to the work of a
brilliant essayist every day
in the week. Neither could
he expect the staff artists,
under the pressure and
distracting conditions in-
separable from such work,
to produce drawings each
day such as a Vierge,
Menzel, or Abbey would
do in their private studios.
Such comparisons would be
obviously unfair, and yet,
after due allowance has
been made for conditions
and requirements of news,
many drawings have been
made by staff workers that
compare very favourably
with the work of a similar
nature in book or magazine
pages.
The drawing of racing
yachts here reproduced
again shows the excellent
power of line displayed by
L. A. Shafer. His know-
ledge of nautical things is
(From the " Chicago Record") very complete, and his
286
CHORUS OF EUROPEAN POWERS : BY JOHN T. MCCUTCII EON
"HERE COMES THE BOGEY MAX '